By Cathy Elelman • Published: 20 Aug 2019 • 11:00
MAKING SURE: A canine unit checked there were no victims trapped beneath CREDIT: Proteccion Civil Pulpi Voluntarios Facebook page
BY great good fortune no one was hurt when rocks came loose and tumbled down the side of a cliff at the Taray Cove in San Juan de los Terreros, the local branch of Civil Protection reported
A post on the Proteccion Civil Pulpi Voluntarios Facebook page said Local Police, Guardia Civil, the Red Cross and the Levante firefighting service were dispatched to the beach last Thursday, following an alert from the 112 Andalucia emergency service.
A canine unit checked there were no victims trapped beneath the rocks.
The day of the rockslide was a national holiday, when beaches up and down the coast were packed.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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